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Show Fullcs, Gardner Tally 23 Each, but Lose NEW YORK, Nov. 11 W Maybe era shouldn't feel sorry for thorn Kentucky boys, after all. Campaigning as the Indianapolis Olympians in the newly formed Notional Basketball Assn., Kentucky's Ken-tucky's 1949 NCAA champions were figured to be playing out of their class. After they had opened the season with a victory over Denver, skeptics skep-tics pointed out that the Nuggets were probably the circuit's weakest weak-est team. When the New York Knickerbockers Knicker-bockers whipped the Olympians by IS points and Syracuse blasted them by 30, cries of "I told you so" began echoing throughout the league. Ke bounding erlth the resiliency f of a great team, the Olympians squared matters with the Knicks on Thursday night and Friday night slammed Joe Fulks and the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Warriors, 91-84. That adds up to a 3-2 mark for a .600 percentage. percent-age. Spunky Ralph Beard jammed 30 points through the cords to pace the winners' drive. Bruce Hale contributed con-tributed 19 markers and Alex Gross, who tallied 41 points against the Knicks on Thursday, added 16. Fulks was his usual self, scoring 23 points. Vera Gardner, Utah's fine center, also netted 23 for the losers. Saturday night's schedule might well be termed a three-ring circus, with eight games corded Involving It teams. Only Sheboygan ia kUa. |